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The Spacetime Positive Mass Theorem with Multiple Time Dimensions

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2026-03-10 v2 Analysis of PDEs Differential Geometry

Abstract

We generalize the spacetime positive mass theorem to include multiple time dimensions. In particular, we show that the mass remains nonnegative in the sense that the energy EE is bounded from below by the trace norm of the linear momenta J1,...,JmJ^1,...,J^m. Equality in this energy inequality implies a foliation by flat submanifolds of a generalized initial data set. Moreover, under an additional umbilicity assumption, we find that the initial data set isometrically embeds into a generalized pp-wave.

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@article{arxiv.2602.20081,
  title  = {The Spacetime Positive Mass Theorem with Multiple Time Dimensions},
  author = {Sven Hirsch and Alec Payne and Yiyue Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.20081},
  year   = {2026}
}
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